Wenger holds his hand up over Arsenal’s shortcomings

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Arsène Wenger will be glad to see the back of a season that he described yesterday as his worst in more than a decade in England.

Arsenal can still finish third in the Barclays Premiership – they are level on points with Liverpool going into tomorrow’s match away to Portsmouth, but trail by two on goal difference – although, on the last of only two occasions in which they finished outside the top two under Wenger before this season, they at least had the consolation of reaching the Champions League final. Finishing as runners-up in the Carling Cup does not